Brecknell Ps25 Quotes & Sayings

Miseries of a birth. — Roland Barthes

The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition. — Blaise Pascal

Don't worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful, too. — Branch Rickey

A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined; but let the virtue of a definition be what it will, in the order of things, it seems rather to follow than to precede our enquiry, of which it ought to be considered as the result. It must be acknowledged that the methods of disquisition and teaching may be sometimes different and on very good reason undoubtedly; but for my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation, is incomparably the best; since not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew; it tends to set the reader himself in the track of invention, and to direct him into those paths in which the author has made his own discoveries, if he should be so happy as to have made any that are valuable. — Edmund Burke

A book is like a sandy path which keeps the indent of footprints. — Graham Greene

Judea is, for all intents and purposes, a temple-state. — Reza Aslan

Ward: Which would you rather have, a National Book Award or a Hugo?
Le Guin: Oh, a Nobel, of course.
Ward: They don't give Nobel Awards in fantasy.
Le Guin: Maybe I can do something for peace. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Though at opposite ends of our country, Maine and Hawaii are, other than climate, much alike. Places where you say who you are, be who you are, keep your word, and don't cheat or lie to take advantage of each other. Where you protect other folks because they are your tribe. — Mike Bond

The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science. — Mahatma Gandhi

I want to play every day. This year will be absolutely no different. — Derek Jeter

Use an extra set of eyes to check on things for me," Finn said. "I can do that. I like — Carolyn Brown

Ebooks had to happen. — Jeff Bezos